Session: 09-05-01: Hydrogen and Energy Storage

Paper Number: 101527

101527 - A Novel Conceptual Design of Modularised Offshore Green Hydrogen System 

As a signatory to the Paris Agreement, the UK is committed to contribute efforts to prevent global temperature increase. The UK set its policies and proposals to meet zero net strategy by 2050. Offshore green hydrogen is one promising approach to transfer offshore wind energy to onshore demand areas due to its clean and high-power density. The UK is accelerating towards offshore green hydrogen and have make the price of green hydrogen competitive in the marketplace. The bottleneck of offshore green hydrogen system (OGHS) is the cost of scaling up hydrogen production in current stage. Innovate design of hydrogen production system may bring breakthrough to the cost when scaling up the OGHS. This study proposed a centralised OGHS which integrates with modularised production, storage, and offloading units using electricity coming from offshore wind farms. The paper offers an overview of the current situation and development of hydrogen platform and offshore wind farm for supporting the design of offshore platform as well as highlights the key features of technologies used by the different components of the OGHS, through a thorough literature review, including state-of-the-art technical reports and journal papers. A conceptual design of the proposed modularised OGHS is illustrated with a recommendation of site selection. Equipment layout of the OGHS distributed on a floating foundation is designed based on a case study of a 200-MW floating wind farm. Stability of the OGHS floating platform is analysed to verify safety of the in the case study, and linear hydrodynamics analysis are simulated based on linear potential theory.

Presenting Author: Ming Zhang University of Strathclyde

Presenting Author Biography: Dr. Ming Zhang is a Research Assosiate of University of Strathclyde.

Authors:

Ming Zhang University of Strathclyde
Zhi-Ming Yuan University of Strathclyde
Long-Bin Tao University of Strathclyde
Wei-Chao Shi University of Strathclyde